The Flowerdrops is a vibrantly illustrated storybook about loss, written for readers of age 8 to adult.
And so, I\'m sure no one slept though it was very late.\' (from the text).
We want to watch this alone, they said.
Everyone in town was hiding.
There wasn\'t a sound.
Down they came, just like moth wings fluttering in the street light, tumbling to the ground. \' We had Flowerdrops last night.
Wandering alone in the silence created by this blanket of flowerdrops, our storyteller remembers a girl named Harriet who has recently come and gone from his life.
It\'s late springtime in Brooklyn, and a million petals fall from the flowering trees that line the borough\'s streets.
It does not hide from sorrow, but, in simple and poetic language, gently guides the reader on a journey through the beauty of one springtime\'s end--and toward the knowledge of how life\'s most difficult feeling will end.
The Flowerdrops is a vibrantly illustrated storybook about loss, written for readers of age 8 to adult
